How to pronounce“trifling”in English
This is him looking into the Caldera at Kilauea. "When foolhardiness would urge me to go and peep into some yawning chasm, my conscience would appear to say to me, "Stop! You are
trifling with the Almighty!"". That's when I think it's arguable that these guys did.
This is Gerlach. You can see the seasickness patch on his neck. He was really battling it. And he had a rough ride out there. And even rougher ride was had by the videographer,
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Definitions of “trifling”
Trivial, or of little importance.
“[…] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.”
Frivolous.
“For, really, as it is a trifling Age, ſo nothing but Trifles are valued in it. Men read none but trifling Authors, purſue none but trifling Amusements, and contend for none but trifling Opinions. A trifling Fellow is prefer'd, a trifling Woman admir'd.”
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
“He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.”
present participle and gerund of trifle
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